To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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